json-native

Parse and stringify native javascript types

json-native allows you to store native types like Dates, RegExps and Functions in json and retrieve them back in their native form.

Install

from npm

npm install --save json-native

API

#stringify(subject)

This takes any valid javascript type and converts it to json format. For most types this will not be any different than JSON.stringify. For Dates, RegExps and Functions however, this will provide a key to allow the value to be converted back to it's native form.

var jn = require('json-native');
 
// same as normal
jn.stringify({k: 'val'}); // => '{"k":"val"}'
 
// special case
js.stringify({k: new Date()}); // => '{"d":"{"__type":"date","__value":"2015-03-06T18:25:11.682Z"}"}'

#parse(json)

This takes any valid json and converts it to it's native form. Contrary to JSON.parse, this will also convert types like Dates, RegExps or Functions to their native form, so longs as the json was stringifed via #stringify.

var jn = require('json-native');
 
var date = new Date();
var json = jn.stringify({d: date});
 
date.getHours() === jn.parse(json).d.getHours(); // => true

License

MIT